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<blockquote data-quote="Don Barclay" data-source="post: 686584" data-attributes="member: 12032"><p>Look. Pretty clearly, the OP was positing that it's more LIKELY we make the playoffs via division title than via wild card. Cool, this is speculative argument, ergo there's no definitive right or wrong at this point -- but somewhere along the line, the claim was made by other posters that it would be "easier" to get to the playoffs via winning the division than via wild card. But there's only one strategic path in the NFL, as succinctly noted by others' "just win" posts; i.e., there's NO alternative strategy to trying as hard as possible to win each game, so the only question to debate is what is *more likely*, not what is *easier*. </p><p></p><p>In the specific case of this year's NFC and our North division, the original post/question raises an interesting discussion and is probably worthy of some good, time-killing speculative argument. However, trying to make the claim that overall, historically in the NFL it's *more likely* to make the playoffs with a certain # of wins by winning your division than via wild card is completely unsupportable, so stop trying to argue that. </p><p></p><p>Nice article (posted in 2014) here: <a href="http://heavy.com/sports/2014/12/nfl-playoffs-prediction-stats-wins/" target="_blank">http://heavy.com/sports/2014/12/nfl-playoffs-prediction-stats-wins/</a> that shows clearly the (obvious, I would think) correlation between # of wins = increased likelihood of making the playoffs. The way to get to the playoffs? Win your games. There's no other strategy. The article also includes this juicy tidbit:</p><p></p><p>"Of the 11 teams that made the playoffs since 1990 with eight or fewer wins, seven were Wild Card teams; four were division champs… San Diego (2008), Seattle (2010), Denver (2011) and Green Bay (2013)." This neglects Carolina two years ago as division champs, but it's still not true that it's more likely to go to the playoffs as division champ than wild card w/8 wins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Barclay, post: 686584, member: 12032"] Look. Pretty clearly, the OP was positing that it's more LIKELY we make the playoffs via division title than via wild card. Cool, this is speculative argument, ergo there's no definitive right or wrong at this point -- but somewhere along the line, the claim was made by other posters that it would be "easier" to get to the playoffs via winning the division than via wild card. But there's only one strategic path in the NFL, as succinctly noted by others' "just win" posts; i.e., there's NO alternative strategy to trying as hard as possible to win each game, so the only question to debate is what is *more likely*, not what is *easier*. In the specific case of this year's NFC and our North division, the original post/question raises an interesting discussion and is probably worthy of some good, time-killing speculative argument. However, trying to make the claim that overall, historically in the NFL it's *more likely* to make the playoffs with a certain # of wins by winning your division than via wild card is completely unsupportable, so stop trying to argue that. Nice article (posted in 2014) here: [URL]http://heavy.com/sports/2014/12/nfl-playoffs-prediction-stats-wins/[/URL] that shows clearly the (obvious, I would think) correlation between # of wins = increased likelihood of making the playoffs. The way to get to the playoffs? Win your games. There's no other strategy. The article also includes this juicy tidbit: "Of the 11 teams that made the playoffs since 1990 with eight or fewer wins, seven were Wild Card teams; four were division champs… San Diego (2008), Seattle (2010), Denver (2011) and Green Bay (2013)." This neglects Carolina two years ago as division champs, but it's still not true that it's more likely to go to the playoffs as division champ than wild card w/8 wins. [/QUOTE]
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